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Underground Railroad
1-In the early 1800s, Quaker abolitionist Isaac T. Hopper set up a network that freed slaves.
2-In 1839, a Washington newspaper reported an escaped slave named Jim had revealed, under torture.
3-”There were many well-used routes stretching west through Ohio to Indiana and Iowa.
4-The Underground Railroad ceased operations about 1863, during the Civil War.
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Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.”
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published - HISTORY
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Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas facts. Bleeding Kansas was a border war on the Kansas-Missouri border. It began with the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 and lasted into the American Civil War (1854–1861). It was an ugly war between groups of people who held strong opinions both for and against slavery.
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Dred Scott Decision
Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States;
Dred Scott decision | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica.com
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Fort sumter is fired upon
Early in the morning of April 12, 1861, Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm on April 13th, Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day. The Union would not recapture Fort Sumter for nearly four years.
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Battle at Bull Run
This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. On July 16, 1861, the untried Union army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn up behind Bull Run beyond Centreville.
Battle Summary: Manassas, First, VA - National Park Service
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Battle of Shiloh
April 6, 1862 the Confederate Army of the Mississippi under Johnston launched an attack on Maj. Gen. Grant's Army of the Tennessee near Pittsburg Landing. One author has even gone so far as to call it the Pearl Harbor of the Civil War. In actuality, Shiloh was not all that much of a surprise.
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Seven Days Battle
Seven Days' Battles, (June 25–July 1, 1862), series of American Civil War battles in which a Confederate army under General Robert E. Lee drove back General George B. McClellan's Union forces and thwarted the Northern attempt to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.
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Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam is considered the bloodiest day in the history of American war, with over 23,000 soldiers wounded, killed, or missing. The Union held off the invasion of the Confederacy, although President Abraham Lincoln was very unhappy that the Confederates were allowed to retreat back to Virginia. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
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Reconstruction
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction
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Battle of vicksburg
The Civil War Battle. Battle of Vicksburg was fought during the American Civil War between Union Army of the Tennessee led by Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate Army of Mississippi led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton.The capture of the Confederate river fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 4, 1863 was a major turning point of the Civil War. Please consider these facts in order to expand your appreciation of this dramatic campaign.
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Lincolns assassination
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.Apr 15, 2011.
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South Surrenders
At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Robert E. Lee surrenders - HISTORY
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Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election was on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1860
